In this dissertation, the need to re-conceptualize political community is explored as a result of the problem of environmental degradation. The concept of inevitability and how it informs barriers to such a re-conceptualization ...

Deep machine learning has received significant attention over the past decade, especially
in terms of dealing with information that may span large scales. By employing a
hierarchical architecture, consisting of simple ...

This thesis explores the challenges posed to democratic legitimacy by current practices of EU
counter-terrorism policing. It is concerned with the increasing amount of international cooperation
between police and, to a ...

Government policies, including the establishment of Foundation Trusts, require NHS organisations to review service delivery and its value. This research took place in an acute NHS hospital as it worked for Foundation Trust ...

A description of the Middle Cornish manuscript found amongst the Puleston Papers by John Mackechnie in 1949, now Add. MS. 46397 in the British Library. The manuscript is a sixteenth-century translation into Cornish of ...

This research describes information behaviour in context: experiences of serendipity in research. The study contributes to the understanding of serendipity as a complex phenomenon by looking at process in serendipity through ...

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Mammographic risk assessment is concerned with estimating the probability of a
woman developing breast cancer. The aim is to improve the likelihood of early
detection of breast cancers. The leading factor in ...

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Unlike traditional 2D images, which are projections of the real world onto a two-dimensional surface, 3D images express the geometry of the objects of interest directly in terms of a set of points, a mesh, or a ...

This thesis explores the role of social capital and domestic savings mobilisation, as demand and supply determinants of access to formal credit for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), in developing countries. The thesis ...

Ocean acidification (OA) and warming represent two of the greatest challenges of the
21st century, and understanding how they will influence whole ecosystems and their
functionality is crucial for effective management. ...

This study explored the information seeking behaviour of a group of nursing students at a single university in the United Kingdom to determine whether any of personality, learning style, or self-efficacy with information ...

This study investigates the usage of electronic resources and their impact on students’ educational success in a secondary college in Mauritius, based on a sample of a group of fifty, sixth grade students. The key areas ...

With autonomous robotic systems increasingly being used for various tasks including research projects, their ability to operate away from their ideal laboratory environment comes into question. Whilst long term autonomous ...

This dissertation is an examination into the evolution of Britain’s airborne forces during World War Two and their participation in two of the most contentious battles that they were involved in, Operations Market Garden ...

This dissertation is an examination into the evolution of Britain’s airborne forces during World War Two and their participation in two of the most contentious battles that they were involved in, Operations Market Garden ...

Methane production by ruminants is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (Webb et al., 2013). However, current values used to estimate methane output by sheep are default values and do not take ...

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The conflict in Afghanistan is over a decade long, yet the literature surrounding the strategies of the Taliban is distinctly lacking. A few scholars, analysts and former military personnel have dedicated chapters ...

Motivated by the desire to see a world living up to the ideal of harmonious multicultural communities, this thesis critically assesses two contemporary approaches to multiculturalism, namely Liberalism 1 and 2. The central ...